As a long time Putty user, I love how upon selecting a text it gets copied into the buffer and upon right clicking it gets pasted back in.
Is there a way to configure Terminal to behave the same way?
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I like that feature, too - but ⌘-C ⌘-V is pretty quick :) – warren Jan 14 '15 at 15:37
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Terminal is limited in its configurability but iTerm2 is a Terminal replacement that does what you ask and more. Including bookmarks for ssh sessions not unlike puTTY.
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Looks interesting. How to you set cut and paste up as i described though? I don't see this under Preferences – JAM May 15 '11 at 0:18
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Preferences windows -> General tab. Make sure
Copy to clipboard on selectionis checked under the Mouse section. – Ian C.♦ May 15 '11 at 0:31 -
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@Ian That will copy to the clipboard when text is hilighted, but won't paste on a right click. It brings up the context menu. It doesn't look like there is an option to do this, but it seems useful. – KeithB May 15 '11 at 14:04
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12 KeithB: in iTerm2 go to "Options -> General -> install test-release updates (or something like this)", check for updates, install last test-release (1.0.0.20130622 by now) and get new option "Right button single click -> Paste from Selection" in Options -> General -> Pointer. I spend half an hour after migrating to new Mac finding this :) Good luck! – Denis Barmenkov May 19 '14 at 10:42
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If you have a three-button mouse (e.g., the Apple Mighty Mouse scroll ball can act as a third button), Terminal will paste the current selection if you Middle-Click (just like X11 and xterm). It is the same as invoking the Edit > Paste Selection command, which has the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-V.
As of OS X 10.8, selecting text in a terminal copies the text to a pasteboard and Paste Selection pastes the contents of this pasteboard (akin to X11’s PRIMARY). It now behaves very much like xterm under X11. As a result, Paste Selection and Middle-Click are now available when there is no selection, pasting the same text until something else is selected, and the text persists when quitting/reopening Terminal. The pasteboard has the identifier com.apple.Terminal.selection and is available to other programs.
Also, you can drag-and-drop selected text to Paste it. You can of course drag to other terminal windows (or other applications), but you can also just drag a few pixels and then release to Paste into the current terminal.
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NO need to download anything. In Terminal do
- select text to copy
- to paste, click the middle button of the mouse, or (cmd + shift + v)
I just tried in Yosemite.
Also works in High Sierra.
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Yes, as I said in my answer four years earlier: apple.stackexchange.com/a/21544/6883 – Chris Page Mar 27 at 7:24
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shift-⌘-V works on El Capitan. Feel free to edit if you have information about earlier releases
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Yes, as I said in my answer five years earlier: apple.stackexchange.com/a/21544/6883 – Chris Page Mar 27 at 7:24
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Highlight the command and press Shift-Cmd-V to paste the highlighted data.
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Yes, as I said in my answer eight years earlier: apple.stackexchange.com/a/21544/6883 – Chris Page Mar 27 at 7:25
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Simply install http://totalterminal.binaryage.com/ which includes both these options in the preferences.
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